Cases and Materials on Torts 13th Edition - 9798889060567

Overview

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Book Highlights

"Cases and Materials on Torts" offers a concise yet comprehensive foundation in the historical evolution of doctrine and social and economic theory, applied to contemporary court issues. The book maintains historical and conceptual continuity while addressing significant contemporary controversies such as public nuisance, global warming, products liability, and new litigation against internet providers.

Thirteenth Edition Updates

The Thirteenth Edition retains influential older cases, both English and American, that continue to be effective in the classroom. It also explores the dominant corrective justice and deterrence approaches to tort law through both retained and new cases and materials.

New to the Thirteenth Edition

• Public Nuisance Law Developments: Including the opioids crisis, global warming, and the sale of guns.
• Expanded Online Platform Duties: Examples include vicarious liability against Uber, products liability against Snapchat for defective algorithms, and against Amazon for defective goods, as well as novel claims of affirmative duties to rescue on Facebook and rideshare companies.
• Drug Litigation Developments: Including duties to report adverse events to regulators post-approval and "innovator liability" on brand-name manufacturers for generic manufacturers' failure to warn.
• Compensatory Damage Awards: Incorporating draft materials of the Restatement (Third) of Torts: Remedies, including considerations of race and gender.
• Streamlined Casebook: Suitable for a comprehensive 1L Torts course.

Benefits for Professors and Students

• Clear Organizational Framework: Facilitates understanding of legal reasoning and the evolution of precedent.
• Historical Line of Cases: Helps students understand key legal concepts and their development.
• Key Academic Commentary: Provides insight into central intellectual disputes over tort law’s nature and function.
• Extensive Notes with Topic Headlines: Elaborate on basic concepts through relevant cases, both old and new, shaping contemporary court issues.
• Attention to Cutting-Edge Tort Developments: Ensures the content is up-to-date and relevant.